{"id":13159,"date":"2024-04-28T14:32:19","date_gmt":"2024-04-28T19:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/?p=13159"},"modified":"2024-04-28T14:49:15","modified_gmt":"2024-04-28T19:49:15","slug":"greenhouse-and-swap-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/greenhouse-and-swap-meet\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenhouse and Swap Meet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Highlights of the past couple weeks included a trip to our favorite greenhouse and an outing to the Le Sueur swap meet. I have a lot of photos to view. Hope you enjoy them!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our favorite greenhouse is located a few miles south of us, west of Alta Vista, and is named Zimmerman’s. They have an amazing range of flowers and plants. Here are a few photos taken of this outing.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Flats of flowers among hanging pots<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Any imaginable color for sale<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Pam examines some grass plants with our cart in foreground<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

When we returned home, Pam planted the new geraniums, adding red mulch around the base.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Geraniums with hostas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

I will finish this section with a view of the Mary Lynn Memorial flower bed, filled with tulips and daffodils, which is along the east side of the house. This year the bed is more colorful than it has ever been. A dozen or so new bulbs are added to refresh the bed every year.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Mary Lynn flower bed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Last year I had attended the annual swap meet held in Le Sueur, Minnesota, and had planned this year’s return. This meet features mostly old engines, equipment, and parts but does have a few other collectible items. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The one YouTube channel I subscribe to is run by a guy who restores old equipment, and he attends this show. I was able to meet him and introduce myself, and we had a short discussion about his channel and projects. This meeting was the high point of the trip for me. If interested, look up “Squatch 253” on your YouTube search.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is always something new at this meet. The following photos show an early motor addition to a bicycle resulting in a “motor bike” from 1917.<\/p>\n\n\n

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I am including a few other photos taken around the swap meet grounds.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Parking lot was filled to overflowing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Parts and old engines abounded<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Hit-and-Miss engines came in many sizes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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A 12 horsepower engine powers this AgriCat crawler<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

I do enjoy getting out to meets like this and had a pleasant day wandering the grounds and looking at all the antiques and parts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Along the same lines of old things, here is a list of hits for 1972 courtesy of a FaceBook post. If you are anywhere my age you will remember these!<\/p>\n\n\n

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That’s it for now. Thanks for looking in!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pam’s Penny<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Flowerbed prep continues. Seed planting next week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Happy Trails.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Highlights of the past couple weeks included a trip to our favorite greenhouse and an outing to the Le Sueur swap meet. I have a lot of photos to view. Hope you enjoy them! Our favorite greenhouse is located a few miles south of us, west of Alta Vista, and is named Zimmerman’s. They have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13159"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13182,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13159\/revisions\/13182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}